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You're wrong, he said they sound similar but if he had to chose, he would would lean towards teamspeak more

Yep, and because of this slightly better voice quality I go back to teamspeak and give up all the other nice modern features that Discord offers me. Just to hear my mates scream a tiny bit better/clearer when they got a headshot. /s

Originally Posted by Patrick1164

I have to agree with you Discord just sounds like ass compared to TeamSpeak at a higher bitrate.

Discord has not the same voice quality and codec as TeamSpeak. Voice quality on discord is bad and thats why I still use teamspeak. Discord has not data encryption. They sell ur data to 3rd parties. Connection to discord servers is really bad. Just wait guys for ts5.

Last edited by dante696; March 11th, 2019 at 07:43 AM.
Reason: merged and moved out of ts5 discussion

Discord has not the same voice quality and codec as TeamSpeak. Voice quality on discord is bad and thats why I still use teamspeak. Discord has not data encryption. They sell ur data to 3rd parties. Connection to discord servers is really bad. Just wait guys for ts5.

I love teamspeak too... But you are not correct. Discord and ts3 voice quality are the same, unless you have an elephant ears...
Also, the data is encripted. You don't have any prove related if they sell data to third parties or not... (I think too, but I can't confirm it).
The only thing I don't like from discord, it's that it's not the best platform to create a clan or community. Yesterday I visited one of the largest servers, and there were not users in channels... "They were online, but not on the server", which is a confuse thing if you came from ts3...

Last edited by dante696; March 11th, 2019 at 07:43 AM.
Reason: merged and moved out of ts5 discussion

I love teamspeak too... But you are not correct. Discord and ts3 voice quality are the same, unless you have an elephant ears...
Also, the data is encripted. You don't have any prove related if they sell data to third parties or not... (I think too, but I can't confirm it).
The only thing I don't like from discord, it's that it's not the best platform to create a clan or community. Yesterday I visited one of the largest servers, and there were not users in channels... "They were online, but not on the server", which is a confuse thing if you came from ts3...

- Teamspeaks voice quality is way better than discord
- Discord will sell your data to third parties.
- Discord is not encrypted at all

Last edited by dante696; March 11th, 2019 at 07:44 AM.
Reason: merged and moved out of ts5 discussion

- Teamspeaks voice quality is way better than discord
- Discord will sell your data to third parties.
- Discord is not encrypted at all

You are absolutely wrong.

1. The voice qualities are literally the same. Both are mostly using the same codec (OPUS). Teamspeak got some more, however they are not better and no one actually uses them. The youtuber "linus tech tips" did a video about it where he compared the audio. You can't hear a difference. He even linked the audio files in the description, check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VayvZUL2mBc&t=249s

2. Let me quote discords privacy policy: "The Company is not in the business of selling your information". They also don't need to, it would probably hurt them more (because their reputation would go down) than it would help (selling data without showing ads on their own page is literally not a good business). Their main incomes are from cosmetics (nitro) and other services they offer in addition (their store).

3. The entire community runs over https. This means you, discord and the recipient can read the data you send. Teamspeak might have a slight advantage here because you can enable end2end encryption there, however many people don't do that and your claim that there is no encryption at all is still wrong.

Last edited by dante696; March 11th, 2019 at 07:43 AM.
Reason: merged and moved out of ts5 discussion

Now that I used Discord more, I can say for the current version of Teamspeak: Goodbye.

Using Teamspeak in comparison to Discord is like using an old-school cell phone in comparison to a smartphone. Having resources like the permanent chat with integrated attachments and screen sharing, as well as being a global user regardless of on what server I am actually online, is so useful and broadens the reach of your communication. You don't need any extra medium to host any resources.

A Discord server is all groups and tiny to medium sized communities need. No forum, no web hosting - just a discord server. It serves voip and all resources that members casually want to share on a permanent basis. It's all much more integrated. Web client, standalone client, smartphone client. All the same. Seamless. Easy and intuitive permission system for server operators.

Apropos intuitive: with Teamspeak, you need to know how to use it. With Discord, you just use it. It's also more clearly laid out as a whole, since it doesn't depend on a main menu bar. This is a legacy of traditional Windows desktop application design.

Actually, Discord is a messenger for groups. A messenger where you can always stay online if you like. Most easy and intuitive on your smartphone that is always with you. A messenger with optional voip group communication support. You stay seamless online. You just leave the voice chat but stay in the text chat. Staying up to date with notifications on your smartphone, if you like/need that. You can use it as a bigger version of Whatsapp, if you need more than one messaging channel with picture attachments for a group.

In Teamspeak, you can only speak. It's crippled if you cannot speak. Chat is only good for ad-hoc sharing of links and debugging if someone's headset doesn't work. These days, that's not enough. It's a kid's toy in comparison to Discord.

TeamSpeak is not very well done

TeamSpeak is not very well done. It has a multitude of bugs that crop up seemingly randomly and are difficult to reproduce. I wouldn't expect any solutions better than "Have you tried restarting?" until it is rebuilt from the ground up for each platform it runs on. The hacks for cross-platform support seem to cause lots of trouble like input fields becoming unresponsive for no discernible reason.